The European Association for Banking and Financial History (eabh) e.V.
Banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions are members of eabh.
eabh members recognise their responsibility towards society. Only a well functioning financial sector can help to increase the welfare of all.
eabh places current challenges of the financial sector into a historical context. Our historians work on long-term topics that matter to the management of financial institutions and policy makers.
eabh promotes archives. Accurate and accessible records of past activities are the indispensable foundation for a sustainable global financial system.
eabh circulates sound research and information upon which today’s decision makers can rely.
The legacy of the past continually resurfaces to determine actions in the present and the future. Through eabh membership institutions gain access to a global network of financial history experts who can provide competent advice.
eabh (ed.)
Piet Clement
Carmen Hofmann
Jakub Kunert (eds.)
Carmen Hofmann
Gabriella Massaglia (eds.)
Carmen Hofmann
Gabriella Massaglia (eds.)
eabh believes that safeguarding the records of financial institutions will improve the protection of global financial stability. Authentic and reliable memory systems are needed to understand current crises and to evaluate risks.
For that reason a project on archival legislation for finance (ALFF) has been started in 2012 with the objective of collecting information about best practices of financial institutions in building and improving their archives.
lunch hour
May 2019
Germany
Conference
20 Jun 2019
St. Petersburg, Russia
This conference adopts a longue durée approach to the historical study of the design of financial systems and their related institutions and explores some of the following questions: how should we coordinate financial systems to make them beneficial for society as a whole? Are there identifiable and transferable factors that facilitated growth and development in some economies as compared to others? What components of a financial system are important, and in which periods and under what circumstances? How have different parts of financial systems interacted throughout history? How has the past shaped the role of finance today?
Archival Workshop
21 Jun 2019
St. Petersburg, Russia
This workshop is aimed at minting and financial institutions’ archivists, money museum curators and researchers. The extensive archives of mints are a treasure-trove of information often covering extended periods of time. Yet some of these archival treasures are only accessible to a handful of specialists or remain largely unknown to researchers and the public. This workshop aims to present these materials to a wider audience and make them more accessible to interested researchers and scholars.
Conference
26 Oct 2018
United Kingdom
The ascent of institutional investors as one of the most powerful players on global financial markets today is a highly relevant yet under researched topic. This conference dealt with the question of when, how and why this massive structural shift happened? And which are the consequences for our societies? How can we set policy frameworks today in a way that ensures that these investors will be able to deliver adequate pension payments in the future?